Why Is Cheating Important In The Great Gatsby

Imagine being in a long, committed relationship and discovering that you are not your partner’s only spouse. Being cheated on can be the most embarrassing and demoralizing travesty that anyone may encounter during their lifetime. It seems simple that if you aren’t happy with your partner, you should at least have the honor of ending the relationship, right? If only relationships were so simple. People tend to cheat because someone else offers something that their current partner is unable to provide. Victims of cheating tend to forgive their partners because they are so sucked into the relationship and scared of being without their love. This is exactly the situation taking place in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. People abandon and

betray their lovers because they seek change and are unable to be satisfied in their current relationship.

There are several cases of cheating and betrayal in this story.

For example, Tom, a married man, comes across a woman who is able to satisfy desires that his current spouse unable to provide for. He even shows his mistress off in front of his wife and family. What would possess someone to be so disrespectful and spiteful? It’s difficult to rationalize and make sense of such actions, but the decay of marriage and increasing divorce rates have been greatly increasing trends throughout the past century.

It seems that everyone wants something that they cannot have. Whether it be wealth, sexual fantasies, a family, status, or whatever the case may be, most people will go out of their way to acquire what they so desire.

Many people have no sense of a moral compass or empathy. They will cheat, steal, and betray, but if someone were to do the same to them, they would be offended and wonder how someone could do such a thing. People will completely tolerate betrayal, just as long as they aren’t the one’s being betrayed. Everyone’s a hypocrite, at least to some extent.

The worst part about betrayal is that most people never even find out that they have been betrayed. A man could go on vacation, cheat on his wife, return home, and she would never find out. Cheaters and other traitors often tend to have the mindset of “I never lied, you just didn’t ask.” Another popular phrase is “It’s not illegal if you don’t get

caught.”

Most cheaters and people who steal, kill, or commit any other crime, tend to not have a positive influence. They have never had something evil happen to them so they have no idea how it could affect someone. When a group of guys are hanging out and a taken man says that he is planning on meeting up with another woman, nobody has the courage to speak up and to tell him that it’s wrong. In this day and age, it seems that doing the right thing has become rather taboo. It is becoming abnormal and looked down upon to be a genuine, courteous human being. Everyone wants to be a labeled as a “savage” or a “playa.”